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Svetolik Dragačevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Светолик Драгачевац; 15 April 1883 – 9 July 1942) was a retired Serbian law enforcement official who sent a threatening typewritten letter to German dictator Adolf Hitler on the eve of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in late March 1941.

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  • Svetolik Dragačevac (Serbian Cyrillic: Светолик Драгачевац; 15 April 1883 – 9 July 1942) was a retired Serbian law enforcement official who sent a threatening typewritten letter to German dictator Adolf Hitler on the eve of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in late March 1941. A veteran of World War I, Dragačevac served as the police chief of several towns in interwar Yugoslavia. At the time of his retirement in 1933, he had been posted to the town of Paraćin, in central Serbia. On 25 March 1941, at a time of heightened tensions between Yugoslavia and the Axis powers, which would eventually culminate in the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Dragačevac typed a threatening letter addressed to Hitler. Following the Axis invasion, occupation and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Dragačevac was arrested by the Gestapo and taken to Belgrade, where he was interrogated. During his interrogation, Dragačevac attributed his authorship of the letter to Serbian nationalist zeal and excessive alcohol consumption. He was subsequently imprisoned in Graz and then deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died of peritonitis in July 1942. Dragačevac's memory fell into obscurity after the war and he remained forgotten for decades hence. The rediscovery of his defiant letter to Hitler in the early 2000s led to renewed public interest in his case. A Serbian-language documentary chronicling Dragačevac's life, and the circumstances leading to his imprisonment and death, was released in 2013. A street in Paraćin bears his name. (en)
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